Fundamentals of Building a Test System

Most organizations do not consider production test a top priority, but it is a necessity to prevent major quality issues in the products that represent the company brand in the hands of customers. The costs, however, can be significant and are often greatly misunderstood, especially when there’s no easy way to quantify the positive business impact of high-quality products or shortened time to market. But best-in-class organizations are unfazed by this “necessary evil” viewpoint, because they seek to understand the total cost of developing, deploying, and maintaining test systems to get ahead of this perception. And the cost of automated test, in reality, is far more complex than the capital cost of a test rack or even the operator’s hourly rate.

In this guide, learn about the tools and insight you need to evaluate your test organization, propose changes where significant cost savings are available, and improve the profitability of your company year over year with smarter investment decisions.

Discussions about the industrial market today are often focused on the vast potential in the industrial IoT (IIoT). The huge potential for innovation offers the promise of significant productivity gains, operational efficiency and bottom line revenue increases, but only if it’s enabled by a supply chain based on reliability, stability and longevity.

These values will be even more important as manufacturers and system integrators adopt greater levels of automation, connectivity and autonomy—all with faster design cycles and more competition i ...

Forward-looking enterprises are investing in digital transformation, acquiring technology and services that accelerate innovation, enhance competitiveness, and help develop new areas of growth. Workstations are often crucial for development and use of manufactured machines.

What you will learn in this infobrief:

1 Digital transformation means many key parts of the business now depend on specific and often very demanding applications.

2 The outcome of these applications can determine the health of the company.

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are ubiquitous in today’s electronics designs. They make up an estimated 30% of the component count in many products, with a market value of more than $8 billion.

Recently, there have been shortages in MLCCs, with lead times extending to problematic lengths, and these capacity limitations are expected to extend to 2020 and beyond. In this whitepaper, we will look at the reasons for these shortages, and review the alternatives to MLCCs that are available to engineers. ...

Manufacturers are facing increasing pressures to get their products to market faster. One way to save vital time is to work with a partner who can provide value added design and assembly services. Distributors such as TTI can provide the expertise and resources needed to accelerate these processes.

In this whitepaper, we look at the example of connectors, to demonstrate the benefits that can be achieved: reducing risk and saving money, as well as minimizing time to market.
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Connectors are often seen as the weakest link between sub-systems, and sometimes this is rightly so. This can be as a result of underspecifying the connector system or not appreciating the difference between the various rating schemes.

Connectors have to operate reliably in a wide range of environments and increasingly have to carry both power and signals without reducing the overall performance of the system. Humidity and electromagnetic interference (EMI) are among the biggest factors, with moisture and dust ingress being the primary conc ...